But by the time they've said: "The txalupa is mushrooms, king prawns, cream and cava, served hot in a puff pastry boat, topped with grated cheese", or "txapeldun is a prawn cocktail with pineapple in syrup, apple and roe" you'd have finished two of each, so it's best just to wade in.
Daisy could always, please forgive me, float my boat, top my prop; she could always crank up the generators at any moment and make me feel as if every last cell in my body were overjuiced and soon to be derelict if not immediately launched toward something warm and soft.
Others, including a fetching set of dishes from the 1930s, hand-painted with little boats topped with yellow sails, occupy her mother-in-law's breakfront.
Alvarenga realised their catch – nearly 500kg (1,100lb) of fresh fish – was making the boat top heavy and unstable.
The whole brain was placed in a hexagonal polystyrene weighing boat (top edge side length, 4.5 cm; bottom edge side length, 3 cm) and was covered with powdered dry ice.
The boats, top-heavy from all our equipment, ran through the water like bathtubs.
It is a 105-foot sloop with racy lines, an aberration in the world of yachting, where racing boats typically top out at 70 feet or 80 feet.
Some other great fashion pieces for curvy figures: thick belts; wrap tops; scoop, rounded, and boat neck tops; sweaters, cardigans, or tops with vertical ruffles (but stay away from horizontal ruffles), and anything with solid or big patterns (small patterns will make you look bigger).
Main courses included a witty take on eggs Benedict: luxuriously creamy day-boat sea scallops topped with sunny-side-up quail eggs and accompanied by a potato cake and sweet-savory chorizo.
If you really want to push the boat out topping wise, top with some slow-roasted cherry tomatoes too.
At his house on the outskirts of Zarqa, about 25km from Amman, Maqdisi keeps a large model boat on top of one of his overstuffed bookshelves.
